Titres dans Mémoires, journaux et correspondance

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1771, being one year younger than her brother William. After their mother died in 1778, they were separated and did not return to the Lake District until 1794, when they spent two happy months walking around the hills near Keswick, eventually settling down at Grasmere in 1799. The journals that Dorothy kept are remarkable for the detailed observations she makes of the surrounding countryside and people, often providing glimpses of poverty and suffering, as well as displaying her complete love affair with nature.

In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott went back to the huge frozen wasteland of the Antarctic with the intention of reaching the South Pole, by a long and terribly arduous trek across the ice. On finally reaching the pole, Scott and his comrades were devastated to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. With temperatures of minus 30, they began their slow journey back to their base.

The brief and tragic life of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) is told through the beautiful and passionate letters written by Charlotte to her best friend Ellen Nussey. Born and brought up in the bleak Haworth parsonage with only her sisters and brother for company, she soon obtains employment as a Governess. Having travelled abroad to study languages in Brussels, she returns to the Yorkshire moors to join her family where she writes her most successful novel, Jane Eyre.

Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child.

Weiterschreiben im Fremdsein – ein einzigartiger Austausch der Kulturen. Wie weiterschreiben nach der Flucht aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten? Wie veröffentlichen? Gehört werden? "Weiterschreiben - (W)Ortwechseln" ist die vielfach ausgezeichnete Online-Plattform, die Autor:innen die Möglichkeit gibt, weiter zu schreiben und literarisch anzukommen. Bereits seit 2017 schreiben Autor:innen u. a. aus Syrien, dem Irak, Iran, Jemen und Afghanistan Briefe, Erzählungen und Gedichte u.a. über ihre alte Heimat und über ihre neue, über das Weggehen und Ankommen.

Have you ever read the story of Creation told in the first person and in a diary form? If not "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" would be the best choice for you. You will find out what the Garden of Eden looked like, see how Adam and Eve lived, and what their perceptions of each other was. You will witness how Eve named the animals and the plants, and what Adam thought of it. This is Mark Twain’s most amusing masterpiece. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories.

Monk Ambrosius arrives at a rural monastery and the last thing he expects to happen is to be drawn into sympathy with a young girl. Her name is Benedicta, the local hangman’s daughter. Ambrosius is not allowed to spend time with Benedicta but he opposes his superiors and stands by her side until a young impetuous man confronts him. The battle between mind and heart is fierce. Find out what will prevail in Ambrose Bierce’s story "The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter".

In "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard," Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official. The first series is addressed to her husband whilst he is on a world tour with Prince Chung in the late 19th century. The second series of letters is from 25 years later and are addressed to her mother-in-law. Political intrigue is raging in China and the country is on the verge of a revolution.

First published as Journal of the Gallery London in 1993 with revised editions in 1998 and 2001, more than 400 entries chronicle the life of the city; a powerfully driven arena of dysfunctional experience. Episodes record incidents and encounters; in the streets, with shoppers and travelers, in the landscape, and in scenes of social and internal life. As the journal develops, fact and fiction blend into a filmic sequence of events.

This day-by-day, factual, and complete account of events throughout the coronavirus pandemic, written as it happened, gives incredible insight into what life was like during this tragic and historic pandemic in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It includes facts and figures, government initiatives, news events, moving individual accounts, and the horrific consequences, as they happened each day. There is also a daily personal slant on what life was like for the author and his family during what threatened to be an apocalyptic event. The diary covers 491 days.

Vom Leben und anderen Komplikationen – Moderatorin Bettina Tietjen zieht Bilanz. Als Bettina Tietjen im Keller ihre alten Tagebücher wiederfindet, beginnt für sie eine aufwühlende Zeitreise. Sie begegnet ihrem 14-jährigen Ich wieder, das sich leidenschaftlich politisch positioniert, taucht ein in die ersten, manchmal auch nur heiß ersehnten Liebschaften, die Jahre der Abnabelung vom strenggläubigen Elternhaus und die große Suche nach dem Lebensglück.

Rahel Levin Varnhagen, geboren vor 250 Jahren in Berlin, war eine ausgesprochene Netzwerkerin. Als Salonnière empfing sie regelmäßig bekannte und unbekannte Gäste verschiedener Stände. Als exzessive Briefeschreiberin reflektierte und kommentierte sie kritisch wie humoristisch ihre persönliche Gegenwart. Dennoch erlebte sie als deutsche Jüdin immer wieder Antisemitismus, was nicht zuletzt Hannah Arendt zu einer Biografie über Varnhagen bewegte.

Este libro es el primer manual del ser contemporáneo y diario personal escrito por mí. La calma del bienestar, de las invenciones. Los aspectos tridimensionales de los objetos humanos concretos, a forma de investigación del pensamiento individual. Describe mis experiencias, fantasiosamente las memorias del bien en la tierra de los malos. El periodo de las dieciocho cartas incluidas va desde agosto del 2005 a marzo del 2007.

Carta al padre es el nombre dado comunmente a la carta que Franz Kafka escribió a su padre Hermann en noviembre de 1919, criticándolo por su conducta emocionalmente abusiva e hipócrita hacia él. Estas cartas revelan aspectos desconocidos del autor.

"Cuadernos de un viajador. Donde confluyen el viajero y el trabajador volumen 1", rejunta crónicas que Mariano Saravia escribió desde el año 2000 y mientras visitaba países muy diferentes. Su actitud está abiertamente alejada de la del turista. Es más bien una actitud de curiosidad profunda, la actitud de alguien que busca las pequeñas y grandes historias de cada región, sus heridas y logros en la persistencia por ser felices los humanos sobre la faz de este Mundo.

"Cuadernos de un viajador". Donde confluyen el viajero y el trabajador, volumen 2, prosigue la colección de crónicas escritas por Saravia durante su paso por distintas naciones con historias agitadas a principios del siglo XXI. Hay un repaso de su recorrido por países sudamericanos como Uruguay, Chile y Paraguay, también un viaje intenso a la Sudáfrica que lleva todavía las marcas del apartheid. Al recuerdo del levantamiento del gueto mientras visita Varsovia le sigue el panorama de la vida actual de los palestinos en Ramallah, Belén y Jerusalén.

1930 kaufte die Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West mit ihrem Ehemann Harold Nicolson die Ruine von Schloss Sissinghurst in Kent, um dort einen Garten zu erschaffen. Heute bewundern jährlich 160.000 Menschen ihr Lebenswerk.

Le lettere sono un altro spazio in cui trovare Cesare Pavese. Insieme alle traduzioni, alle poesie, ai romanzi e ai racconti, l’epistolario di Cesare Pavese rappresenta un ulteriore specchio in cui scoprire riflessa l’immagine dell’uomo, di quella costruzione di sé che ha caratterizzato tutto il percorso intellettuale dello scrittore. Uomo e scrittore.

No sé si este audiolibro es una novela, un diario de no ficción o qué. Trata sobre el deseo de morir y de vivir. Sobre el amor y las preguntas que este despierta. Y sobre el dolor, sobre todo sobre el dolor: el de ella, mi esposa, que me pide la muerte, y el mío, que no se la puedo dar. Éste es el diario de un cobarde que superó un cáncer y ahora se enfrenta, escaso de fuerzas, al cáncer terminal de su mujer.

En Historia de la Guerra Civil sin mitos ni tópicos, Manuel P. Villatoro e Israel Viana repasan los años treinta del siglo XX para entender el enfrentamiento capital de nuestra historia reciente, la cruenta guerra civil que antecedió a uno de los períodos más convulsos del siglo XX en España y Europa.